Task Cards for Teachers
Explore hundreds of task cards created by teachers for your primary classroom! This collection of curriculum-aligned teaching resources touches on every subject from English to maths, science to social studies and beyond.
This collection of printable task cards can help stimulate curiosity and motivate your students to participate actively in their learning!
Not familiar with task cards, or just looking for fresh ways to use them in the classroom? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Are Task Cards?
A task card is a small card or piece of paper that presents students with a specific learning task or activity to complete.
Perfect for adding to your learning stations or rotations, the cards typically contain a question, problem or activity that requires them to apply their knowledge and skills to solve or respond. The idea is to promote independent learning and allow kids to work at their own pace.
They're also invaluable for differentiating instruction as you can provide different levels of challenge or content to meet individual student needs. You'll notice many of the Teach Starter sets of task cards have varying difficulty levels.
Best Ways to Store Task Cards
We know task cards are invaluable tools for teachers — it's why our teacher team invests time in creating cards that will get your students engaged in learning! But we also know you end up with a LOT of task cards as the school year goes on. So how do you store them all?
Here are some tips from our teacher team to keep track of all those task cards!
- Punch a hole in each pack of task cards, and use binder rings. This makes it easy for students to flip through the cards in your centers without losing any along the way. The one drawback to this solution is that the cards can get frayed quickly, so you might want to laminate the cardstock before adding them to the ring.
- Use photo storage boxes. Most task cards are sized similarly to small photos, making photo storage boxes perfectly sized for your cards! Don't forget to label each box with the type of task card so you can find them easily next school year when it's time for this particular unit!
- Use note card holders. Did you print your task cards to fit on note or index cards? There are storage holders designed just for those items that will double as simple task card storage!
- Plastic zipper bags. Store individual sets of task cards in plastic zipper bags or sandwich bags, and use a permanent marker to label each bag with what the card is all about or use different coloured bags so that kids know exactly which bag takes which card set. You could even bring the binder ring into the mix by punching a hole in each bag, then looping the bags on the binder ring.
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Halloween Reading Comprehension – Fiction Story and Task Cards
Practise reading comprehension skills with an exciting Halloween reading comprehension activity for Year 4 students.
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Balancing Act Activity
A fun art activity to explore positive and negative space.
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IMPRESSive Imprints Activity
A fun art activity to explore texture.
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Masked in Mystery Activity
A fun art activity to explore shape through the creation of a mask.
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Bounce Back – Resiliency Task Cards
A set of 24 task cards to use when teaching students how to be resilient.
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Fuzzy Friends Repeating Pattern Activity Cards
Repeating pattern activity cards using coloured pompoms.
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Sorting Senses Peg Cards
A hands-on senses identification and fine motor activity for younger students.
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Fast Finisher Task Cards - Lower Years
A set of task cards to use with students who have finished their work early.
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Year 1 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 1 magazine.
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Year 3 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 3 magazine.
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Book Study Grid 2 - Upper Grades
A grid with various book study activity ideas.
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Fast Finisher Technologies Task Cards - Year 4
A set of 10 Technologies task cards.
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Fast Finisher Technologies Task Cards - Year 3
A set of 10 Technologies task cards.
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Book Hunt Image and Task Cards
Use this gorgeous illustration with task cards to match to explore different story books.
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Fast Finisher The Arts Task Cards - Year 1
A set of 10 The Arts task cards.
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Fast Finisher Technologies Task Cards - Year 2
A set of 10 Technologies task cards.
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Fast Finisher Health and Physical Education Task Cards - Year 1
A set of 10 Health and Physical Education task cards.
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Gratitude Journal Writing Prompt Cards
A set of 50 gratitude journal writing prompt cards.
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Fast Finisher Numeracy Task Cards - Year 6
A set of 30 numeracy task cards.
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Build a Pirate Ship STEM Challenge - Upper Years
A STEM challenge suitable for students in the upper years.
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Missing Letter Alphabet Cards
A resource to help students identify the first letter of each word.
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Nutty Nursery Rhymes Speaking and Listening Activity
A set of eight nursery rhyme cards which have been modified for a speaking activity.
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Bloom's Taxonomy Fast Finisher Task Cards - Upper Years
44 Bloom's Taxonomy fast finisher activity cards.
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Mash Up Words - Compound Word Peg Cards
Identify examples of compound nouns and engage your students with a set of printable Compound Word Peg Cards.
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Dividing Decimals Match-Up Activity
Divide decimals and find the correct quotient with this match-up activity.
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Dividing Decimals Task Cards
Sharpen decimal division skills with this set of 24 task cards.
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Comparing and Ordering Decimals Task Cards
Have students practise comparing and ordering decimals to the thousandths place with this set of 16 task cards.
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Sound Energy Task Cards
Reinforce student understanding of sound energy facts and vocabulary with this set of 24 task cards.
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Perseverance or Not? Scenario Cards
Get students to explore real-life examples of perseverance with this set of 16 scenario cards perfect for developing students' social-emotional skills.
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Mindfulness Activity Task Cards for the Classroom
Get mindfulness activity ideas for your classroom with printable activity cards you can use again and again!
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Perimeter of Composite Shapes Task Cards
Have your students find the perimeter of composite shapes with this set of task cards perfect for maths rotations.
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Conjunctive Adverbs Task Cards
Assess your students’ understanding of conjunctive adverbs with these fun adverbs task cards!